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Learn more about the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere

Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture

Planet Murple is an app that teaches kids to cook, so they build curiosity and self-sufficiency around food.

Planet Murple hopes to redesign our broken food culture starting with kids and education. Find out more about Planet Murple

Planet Murple was created by Emily Yao and Dave Resnick. Purple Murple is based in the Bay Area in the United States.

Range helps US school-age youth find safe places and summer time meals. The list of safe places is all libraries in the US. The summer meals are the locations of USDA funded meal service sites that are available during the school year.

Range is available and has data for the entire US. Range will help us get to zero hunger (SDG 2). Find out more about Range.

Range is made by Caravan Studios, a division of TechSoup. TechSoup is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in the United States.

Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

Doctor D customizes recommendations regarding HIV & STD testing, HIV prevention, and vaccinations, and locates nearby sexual health services for men.

A free iPhone app that empowers guys to stay on top of their sexual health. Find out more and download Doctor D

Doctor D is made by David Ernst and Prevention Health Labs. Doctor D is based in the United States.

First Derm provides direct access to a dermatologist for first steps & guidance on skincare concerns.

First Derm is available wherever you are. Your case will be answered by a top board-certified dermatologist in your area. Together the dermatology team speaks 6 languages and has helped users from 160 countries. Find out more and download the app First Derm

First Derm team is advised by globally recognized leaders in digital health, teledermatology and startups. Frist Derm was started by Alexander Börve. The team is based in the United States, Sweden, Norway, and the United Kingdom.

Heart Spark is an app, map, and game built to help you and others save cardiac arrest victims. Learn where the nearest defib is, submit new ones, and approve existing listing.

Sudden Cardiac Arrest kills more than a 1,000 people each day, it is one of the leading causes of death. Defibrillators are easy to use, effective, and everywhere, but if you can't find a defibrillator in an emergency the chance of survival drops 7-10% for every minute without defibrillation. Heart Spark helps you learn where the nearest defibrillator is, submit new locations, and approve existing listings. Find out more and download the app Heart Spark

Heart Spark was created by David RustSmith in the United States.

Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning

Mentive is a platform for live online classes with real people and top quality materials to master the skills you need.

Mentive believes knowledge turns dreams into reality. Education brings knowledge. Mentive is a global educational community where students and mentors meet to turn any online course into an interactive learning experience. Mentive is determined to find a way to enhance all the great online courses out there with the benefits of face-to-face learning. Find out more about Mentive

Mentive was founded by Jonathan Heyne and has a team of mentors. Mentive is based in Berkeley in the United States.

Moneythink is a movement of young people working to restore the economic health of the United States through financial education. Moneythink has an app that challenges you to prove your financial skills.

Money think believes the opportunity gap is wider than ever. Money skills aren't taught in American schools. We believe every student deserves a financial education, and we're on a mission to make that happen. Find out more and download the app Moneythink

Moneythink was created by Ted Gonder, Greg Nance, and Shashin Chokshi and is based in Chicago, United States. Moneythink has partnered with Causelabs.

Open Schools! is a web app that hopes to support family decisions with data. Open Schools! helps parents choose a school in Washington DC.

Open Schools! recognizes that the "right" school for children can be evaluated not just by standardized test scores, but by teacher turnover, parent involvement, special programming, community and more. Data is from school populations by neighborhood, and gradually plan to add information collected from the city, NGOs, the private sector, and users. Learn more about Open Schools

Open Schools was created by Code For DC located in Washington DC in the United States.

Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

Goal 6: Ensure access to water and sanitation for all

Goal 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all

Goal 8: Promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment and decent work for all

Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation

Callbot is an app that will call a group of contacts for you in minutes to deliver a personally recorded voice message right from your phone. Simply make a group from your contacts, and then record your own voice message, then let Callbot make all the calls for you.

Callbot helps nonprofits and organizations manage their volunteers, send reminders, notify employees, and much more. Learn more and download the app Callbot.

Callbot was created by Gravity Fish a small developer team based in the United States.

Open Garden is a peer-to-peer mesh network enabling communities, orgs and app developers create resilient, people-powered networks, extending the reach of the Internet.

Open Garden is dedicated to connecting the next 5 billion mobile devices with peer-to-peer connections. Many call them the pioneers of peer-to peer mesh networking. They created FireChat, the first messaging app to enable people to communicate even without any Internet connection or cellular data. Find out more and download the app Open Garden

Open Garden was founded by Paul Hainsworth, Ben Teitelbaum, and Christophe Daligault. Open Garden is based in San Francisco in the United States.

Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries

District Housing helps residents and caseworkers prepare affordable housing applications by creating an online, common application form that can be used to automatically fill out any building’s application.

To apply for affordable housing in the District of Columbia, residents must fill out a separate paper application for each HUD-subsidized building they apply for. None of the approximately 100 applications are the same format and none are electronically accessible. Find out more about District House

District House is based in Washington DC in the United States and was created by Code For DC. District House partners with Bread For City.

Goal 11: Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

Labre is an app and a place for the community to share real-time knowledge of resources available in your city.

With the Labre app, you no longer have to depend on organizations to update resource directories. You can share your knowledge and help keep information about resources up-to-date. This includes resources for food, shelter, facilities, legal services, work opportunities, medical facilities, power, Wi-Fi and more. The Diginido Lifeline is a program that helps the homeless and low-income community acquire smartphones with free data plans as a way to stay connected to families and provide an avenue for digital education. Find out more about Labre

Labre was created by Ehb Teng and Diginido Labs LLC, a social impact venture based in the United States.

Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources

Goal 15: Sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation, halt biodiversity loss

Goal 16: Promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies

AboliShop aims to prevent the spread of human trafficking around the world by informing consumers of the ethicality of the supply chains for certain products. The AboliShop intervention tool interfaces with a web browser to display Free2Work grades as consumers browse through online retail space. Armed with this information, consumers can make the decision to buy from suppliers that have demonstrated a commitment to preventing human trafficking.

AboliShop is currently in beta testing. Learn more and about AboliShop and Free2Work.

AboliShop’s team is located in the United States and was created by Nick Montgomery, Kwamina Orleans-Pobee, and Wes Williams. AboliShop partners with Not For Sale and USAID.

The Sunlight Foundation is a nonpartisan nonprofit that advocates for open government globally and uses technology to make government more accountable to all. Our vision is to use technology to enable more complete, equitable and effective democratic participation. Learn more about Sunlight Foundation.

Some of Sunlight's noteworthy apps and tools: Hall of Justice An inventory of criminal justice data. Open States Discover and follow all state legislatures. OpenCongress Track bills and lawmakers in Congress. Party Time Tracking the political fundraising circuit.

The Sunlight Foundation is located in Washington DC in the United States. The Foundation is a 501(C)3 nonprofit. View the team and board here.

We Vote political social network for America. View your ballot, learn from friends, share your vision.

We Vote USA is nonprofit, nonpartisan, open source, and ready to get out the vote through social sharing. We are a volunteer-driven movement, dedicated to educating citizens and bringing social collaboration to the process of making voting decisions. We have built an open platform for citizens to create and share personal voter guides that aggregate information and opinions across their social networks. Find out more about We Vote

We Vote USA was started by Dale McGrew and is in the process of applying for 501(c)(4) nonprofit status based in the United States.

Goal 17: Revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development